04/15/2022 04:48 PM EDT
With Daniel Lippman
MORE K STREET LEGAL DRAMA: McAllister & Quinn, the D.C. lobbying shop that specializes in grant consulting services, has sued six of its former employees, alleging breach of contract and violations of trade secrets statutes after the staffers resigned en masse to work at another lobbying firm, bringing former clients with them.
— The suit was filed in February, days before an announcement that the lobbyists — Jessica Venable, Scott Tominovich, Chris Fish, Joo Young Lee, Casey Newell and Jake Parduhn — would all join Thorn Run Partners. According to the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the group submitted their resignations within an hour of each other, along with termination notices for more than two dozen clients that were following them to Thorn Run. The termination notices carried dates of as early as Nov. 1, despite office policy requiring such notices be disclosed immediately upon receipt, according to the complaint.
— Venable, Tominovich, Fish, Lee, Newell and Parduhn late last month asked a judge to dismiss the suit and have disputed McAllister & Quinn’s classification of certain internal information like grant methodologies as proprietary information, calling the firm’s use of the term “a post hoc categorization that materialized after Defendants resigned.” At the same time, the defendants pointed out the firm did not offer evidence...
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